Why are the Health Insurance giant so intimidated by the "Single Payer" or presently "Public Option" if it's a free?

Market ?

Fed Ex, UPS, DHL.. all seem to be doing enormously well against the post office. Seems a tolerant amount of people go the private route and the Post bureau hardly has a strangle hold on the currier business ?

so why the fuss ?
Answers:
ANYTHING that cuts into their profits will be dealt near by misinformation dolled out by the corporate shills of talk radio.
The USPS is a very fruitless example, as they don't get taxpayer subsidies, so they can't afford to undercut the competition.

The only process I would support a public option is if its budget was entirely set to the fees it takes in from the inhabitants who use it. No taxation of non-users, no deficit spending.

If government care is as perfect as Democrats claim, people will flock to it, and it will sustain itself. If it's as bad as Republicans claim, it will wither and die.
Because they currently rake surrounded by premiums hand over fist, claiming the increased cost of providing health effort requires them to charge more. But, they can easily refuse to wage for care for any reason, including pre-existing conditions, particular treatments for the terminally ill, or any case where on earth they would be losing money instead of making it.

If the government steps in near a single-payer system, people would flock to it and the insurance companies would lose a lot of money. So, they're lobbying resembling crazy to get any kind of wide-ranging health care system defeated. This includes lobbying the republicans within congress and motivating a so-called "grass roots" opposition (AKA the Town Hallers).

They're in a nouns right now, because they're seeing their source of obscene profits possibly slipping away. And, they'll do anything to not lose it.
Well a 40 percent gross profit margin may have something to do next to that. That is 40 percent of your claim dollar goes as pure profit to the insurance company. These are the same compnaies that process medicare claims for the policy. Except these companies take only 3 percent of the premium dollar to process the claoms. That 3 percent includes their profit on that business......hmmmm dream up that may have something to do with what is going on.
FIRST OF ALL IT IS NOT FREE!
Have you read HR120 or whatever? Ok, I confess I haven't read all of it (Of course neither has Obama) but i know its unsophisticated structure. Its going to tax the **** out of people WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT. You can in reality get a fine EVERY YEAR you dont use it if they deem you need it. Also it will drive the private sector out of business above all because those fines will force people into low quality, low body government run healthcare which is a branch of socialism which will on top of adjectives of that drive our economy down. Source(s): HR120 whatever
FOX and CNN report reports
History text book reports on UH
The unadulterated question to be asked is actually...why is the US public so gullible as to tip out for their shite on this issue?

It's obvious why the Health Insurance Industry is against a Single provider solution. They currently have complete freedom to run Health care in the US...for profit and not to benefit US citizens. Should a single provider leeway be offered they may just have to start paying out on sound claims, insuring people with pre-existing conditions, approving basic tests...ie: actually providing a service fairly than simply taking money under false pretenses.

But what on earth is going on surrounded by the minds of the millions of Americans who are seemingly terrified at the very prospect of clothed public health care...remunerated for by their own tax dollars and delivered to THEIR family unit and friends in an efficient and humane bearing?

Do they put something in your water supply...to engineer you all THICK?
(A) The USPS is going broke (again)

(B) The USPS has a legal monopoly on First Class Mail. Preventing private competition by canon is hardly an example of free market competition.

(C) The USPS make a good deal of its money delivering correspondence for the Federal Government, and then "charging" more than market rates for this service to receive it look like it's actually doing better than it is.

(D) HR-3200 is full of provisions which will bring in it difficult or impossible for private health insurance companies to "compete" with the Public Option. And, within 5 years, all plans must meet beside government mandated policies concerning price and coverage, including guaranteed issue. This is hardly an exercise in free open market competition.
Because the government can so choose to regulate them out of business.

Speaking of the Post Office - Given how inefficiently it is run, why would anyone trust the senate to efficiently run Health Care?
Good question.Because the industry might take a hit surrounded by money loses.Do you own a piece of the rock. Source(s): have a nice day
Oops, you stumbled onto a FACT that the crazies who scream at town hall meeting don't want you to know.

As penance, you must watch 5 hours of Faux News.

Then you will be properly sedated so as not to cause any more trouble next to your TRUTH!
The government doesn't penalize you, tax you, fine you or try to hold you from using FedEx or UPS.
because they may with the sole purpose make millions instead of billions in profits, and they are afraid they are going to own to start practicing better business ethics.......
OK.. Make free market form insurance taxpayer funded and let it run at a deficit without any repercussions...Then it will be equal.

OH and consent to the private carriers set the policy and rules for the Government program.. sound rational?
I don't understand any. If a single payer option comes, I would most likely stay on my private plan and keep under surveillance prices come down.
Good point, subvertor...the Post Office is still a wonderful bargain for our correspondence, but I see lots of UPS and Fed Ex trucks all over the highways and around town. The nouns for President Obama and the Democrats is a public option, which does not necessarily mean this will be "free" to those who join. Small business leaders have some legitimate question, because they are often having trouble remaining competitive while still providing robustness care for their workers, whereas competitors who choose not to provide such benefit can operate with a greater profit edge. They can be part of a larger pool and get better prices beneath the Obama proposal, or they can opt for the public plan and pay an annual fee of going on for $750 or less per person, is what President Obama have said. I ask skeptics to consider how this is different from Reagan/Bush days after the firing of PATCO, when all the full-time workers' jobs be suddenly in jeopardy because Reagan had given the green street light to CEOs to get rid of the ones with benefits and hire leisure replacements with no benefits. The greed-driven CEOs weren't happy satisfactory with the profits of using part-timers; they decided to settle even less and use illegal immigrant. Next, they decided to eliminate paying taxes and move their companies off-shore to nation where the workers average $300 a year (like India). This cycle of greed has to extension. Insurance companies spend between $20,000,000 and $60,000,000 each year just figure out how to deny claims. It's sort of like a pack of huge rabid dobermans being startled of a chihuahua puppy.

Some of the scripted organized protests trying every trick to prevent civil discourse, though, are not just being done by the big insurance companies and/or pharmaceuticals (although they are involved). Research reveals that DLA Piper (a colossal lobbying firm that serves several countries including the U.S., and Koch Family Foundations (oil industrialists with some stockholdings in vigour care-related industries) are behind Dick Armey's FreedomWorks and Tim Phillips's Americans for Prosperity (article by Lee Fang July 31st 2009). Why would big grease be interested in blocking President Obama's initiatives? Perhaps this would have something to do beside (a) attempting to reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, since one of DLA Piper's clients basically happens to be Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirate (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai. Just guessing... or (b) the Cap and Trade bill that will introduce new technology and alternative sources of energy (which both well-paid lobbyists Armey and Phillips are dead set against, but also their rich client/s are against).

I wonder too a short time ago how many cult-evangelicals have jump on the anti-public plan with all their crazy "passing squad" spiel (I think the Republican Congressman who suggested the provision for having a medical doctor reimbursed for consultations going on for end-of-life options was a plant---something that he could then deny and then the nutjob evangelicals and lobbyist paid GOP rightwingrs surrounded by Congress and the Senate could spin into a conspiracy theory, maybe near the help of the Hill & Knowlton PR firm based on DC. Important: Read Goldberg's book, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism"---these empire (biblical literalists who are very anti-government) are very precarious and have been busy olden times 12 years taking over the GOP and our government from within, aided and abet by the Bush/Cheney administration (who hired them to work in the White House) and by the ultra-rightwing Congressman on Capital Hill for whom slightly a few are working right now---Michael Farris's "Generation Joshua culture warriors" as he calls them. These wingnuts justify positively any means to block abortion, and most are rabidly anti-black, anti-Hispanic (white supremacists) who talk freely give or take a few violent revolution. Source(s): "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy" by ex-conservative rightwing insider David Brock.

Rossi, Melissa (2005), "What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World: The People, Corporations, and Organizations that Control Our Future." NY: Plume.
good question. hold asking them . we need answers.
But DHL, Fedex, and UPS are not "allowed" to deliver first class postage delivery. And the post office is losing money by the bucket loads. Draw that analogy from what is going now to what will crop up in healthcare. Plus, this bill has the private insurance companies not sufficiently expert to bring in any new clients after 2013. That way they will eventually be put out of business. More job losses in the long run too. Source(s): Nothing is ever free. Someone is paying for it and the parliament has no ability to earn money or produce anything.


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